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| jannah |
| 03/06/04 at 04:03:53 |
| salam, it's been a long time since i posted some of these... for anyone who has cats: ~ Delicious Stew ~ One day Nasreddin Hodja bought 2 kilograms of meat from the neighbourhood butcher. He brought the meat home and asked his wife to cook a real nice stew for dinner. Thus secured the evening meal, he happily headed off to his field to work. Hodja's wife did cook the stew but about lunch time a few of her friends and relatives came over for a visit. Having nothing else to serve to her guests, she served the stew. They all ate heartily and finished it all. Hodja came home after a long day's work and asked his wife if the stew was ready. `Ahh, ahh! You have no idea what befell the stew.' his wife said, `The cat ate it all.' Nasreddin Hodja, suspicious, looked around and saw the scrawny little cat in one corner, looking as hungry as himself. Hodja grabbed the cat and weighed him on his pair of scales. The poor thing weighed exactly two kilos. `Woman,' said the Hodja, `if this is the cat, where is the stew? If this is the stew, then where is the cat?' i quite laughed myself silly on this one: ~ On the Roof ~ Nasreddin Hodja's old house had a leaking roof. One day the Hodja decided to fix it. He borrowed a ladder and with great difficulty climbed up to the roof. Just as he was setting off to work, he heard a knock on the door. He looked down from the edge of the roof and saw a stranger in front of his door. `I am up here.' Hodja shouted. When the man looked up, `What is it that you want?' he asked him. `Please come down,' replied the man, `I have something to say to you.' Hodja precariously descended down the old ladder. Once on the ground he again asked the man what he wanted. `Alms,' said the man, `could you spare some alms.' Hodja thought for a second and then told the man to come up to the roof with him. Hodja in front, the beggar behind him, both running short on breath, climbed up the ladder. Once on the roof top, Hodja turned to the man and said: `I don't have any.' for some reason my dad loves this one: ~ First Sermon ~ On his first day as the village's imam, Nasreddin Hodja was seated on the raised bench, preparing to give his sermon. The congregation was quite anxious to hear what he had to say. But The Hodja didn't really have a sermon ready. `Do you know what I am about to tell you today?' he asked. `No, Hodja Effendi, we don't.' they replied. `If you don't know what I am going to talk about,' the Hodja said, `then I have nothing to tell you.' And with that, he got up and left the mosque, leaving the puzzled people behind him. The next day, when it was the time of the sermon, Hodja was back on his seat and the congregation curiously waiting. `Do you know what I am about to tell you today?' Hodja asked again. Having learned from the previous day, the people were not about to say `no' this time. `Yes, Hodja Effendi,' they all shouted, `we know.' `Well,' said the Hodja, `if you already know what I am going to tell you, then I don't need to tell it to you!' He got up and left. The people gathered in the mosque were at a loss. The third day Hodja came and sat down, and asked his question. `Do you know what I am about to tell you today?' The congregation was not going to let Hodja get away this time without giving a sermon. Some of them replied with `yes, we do' and some of them replied with `no, we don't.' `In that case,' said the Hodja, `Those who do know should tell the ones who do not know.' and slipped out of the mosque. |
| 03/06/04 at 04:04:48 |
| jannah |
| Re: Humorous Stories... |
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| Angelic_Muslim |
| 03/06/04 at 13:40:35 |
| [slm] Those were really funny, especially the last one, I loved that! (Applauds) :D [wlm] |
| 03/06/04 at 13:41:14 |
| Angelic_Muslim |
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